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17188 Cannot quotes by 6763 unique authors
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Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher…
— Herbert Hoover
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'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain,…
— Marianne Williamson
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The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.
— Ananda Coomaraswamy
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One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of…
— Emile Durkheim
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Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition.…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only…
— Thomas Merton
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Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune…
— James De Mille
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Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.
— Felix Rohatyn
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In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken…
— Billy Graham
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Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they do they will…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that…
— Thomas More
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Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to.
— Robert Breault
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Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.
— Leon Gambetta
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For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.
— Barack Obama
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Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy wherever…
— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
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If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who…
— John Dewey
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It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find some person that…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Politicians cannot alter trends.
— Unknown Author
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The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception.…
— Pope Francis
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We should commit ourselves to 'eucharistic coherence,' that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and at the same time act…
— Pope Francis
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Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully.…
— Eckhart Tolle
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